Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-11-28
AN AUSTRALIANS CHAT.
"Gath's" Interesting Conversation With
Citizen Of the Antipot;aI Continent,

/ Citizen Of the AntipOdal Continent.
Going out TO the coast were some Aus
tralians. with one Of whom. name,
George Walker. a hotel keeper in Mel
bourne, | talked parts of several days tl
the following effect:
when did You leave Australia"
last MAY. When | reach home.
about Oct. 20. | shall have crossed tn,
equator twice and been around the
world. The fare from Melbourne to Eng
Land by Suez is nearly the same as from
England by the United States back to
Melbourne: say $40 each way. or 500
around the globe. have spent in the
live months of my absence $500. | have
not been To England before for ten wears.
and can hardly 60 again for five years
more. Ny brother came out to America
with me and went home from Chicago. -
Only at Alden, in the Red sea. and we
tied up at night in the Suez canal. be-
cause we carried no electric light. got
off at Naples and came overland 10 Lon
don. The ship touches at Plymouth
first. and then comes up the Thames to
Gravesend. Going nack, we shall stop
AT Honolulu and at Auckland, New
Zealand. 1t is "a tedious job crossing the
equator. and for a fortnight we are in Il
lanGuid sweat. Still, we do not feel 50
far out Of the world as YOU might sup
pose, since We have an ocean cable and
get the news from everywhere daily.
There are two regular lines of steamers.
the Peninsuar and Oriental and the san
Francisco line. besides French and Ger
man service.
How is the railroad service. compara-
tively:'
Better than in Europe. But in Aus
tralla the government of each province
owns all the railways. We have no cor
poraEon railways at all. The Victoria
railways pay nearly j per cent. Those
of New South Wa!eS pay only , per
cent.-hardly that. But you see, Mel
bourne city has 400. .O00 people.
Then. l suppose. you have no exces-
sively rich men. since YOU have no rail
way magnates:
God bless your soul. we have got one
man worth -. 900. 600. He is a money
lender: old Money Miller he is called.
aged now "a years. The poor fellow is a
skInfiint. Ten per cent. is low interest
for him. He made most of his money
going security for the administrators of
trust estates. where securities are required
of double the sum involved. The law
plays directly into the old fellows hands
unconsciously. We have large line of
wealthy men: real estate in Melbourne is
enormously high. ! thought to buv
piece of ground ten miles from the CITY.
OF only twenty-five arzes, bat the price
asked was ej, 90. Il aftervard soh for
three times that amount. In the bese
parts Of Melbourne ground , 81. 800 the
front foot, las 900 fect deep.'
'.Have you GOT uls;versal UErages''
"Yes. That b TIE trcuAle with us.
Our speaker of assembly. Sir Peter
Lalor. Is the Representatives 0f the rough
element. Some years aeo be was Q pro
claimed rebel. having resisted the ccllecL
ton of the government tex on miners
But without him and sGL.e other such
leaders of heaC,lrons f~nr. -,
suppose we should r: :et along at all
The effect of universal Suffrage is y"
make men vote into Office poopae whom
they like rather than people they should
Ike. One fellow gives a dinner 10 every
another buys up the bosses
If district. The society of Australia
TO that of England is like a
perpetual picnic. Those who stay after
hey have made their pile are those who
ind England dull and distas,eful.
''How do your colonies compare?"
New South Wales. or Sydney. is the
Dld. conservative. jealous, parent state.
Melbourne is the American state of Aus
ralia. Their leading politician calls us
1 mere cabbage garden, alluding to our
raising table vegetables for Sydney. We
carry away anything valuable
'r enterprising, such as the colonial ex-
libition of next year. South Wales has
, good city, Adelaide. of near 100, 900
,eolle. Perth is the young emporium
If West Australia: Brisbane is the chief
,ity of Queensland, where now is good
ieal Of land speculation. Victoria is the
nigh tariff state, whilst Sydney is the
rec trade port.
1--WE have a duty OF above % per
,ent. on machinery. 20 that $500 worth
'sis sipNe IT'S value 10 import ntdT TlfV.
We had a piece Of public work to do re-
emily where the home bid was f25. 900
more than the English bid, Yet the min
ster gave the work to the home bidders.
md they Were unable to complete it. SO
hat it had finally 10 be sent abroad, after
ILL.,"
Does Sydney grow faster than Mel
ourne:'
Il think Sydney has been growing
ather faster Of late. although the gen.
.ral movement Of the two states is in
avor of Melbourne. which is 500 miles
arther south. and therefore colder and
much more energetic. You see our cold
Innate Is the southern. Our cold wind
'omes from the south pole. Our spring
; next month, October, and our summer
5 January The sun rises differently to
Is from its course overhead in Europe
md America. We have climate alter
rated by sitting heat from the north and
old blows from the south. which we call
,ur southern busters. George Alfred
townsend in Boston Globe.
The InS and Outs of Life.
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